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“Yeah.” He pursed his lips, but I was almost certain his eyes flickered to my mouth.
Did he want to kiss me again?
Who was I kidding? Guys like Kaiden didn’t want girls like me. They wanted girls like Lindsey or Peyton. Strong, confident, sexy girls who knew what they wanted and weren’t afraid to take it.
I wasn’t that girl.
I’d never be her.
All I wanted was to get through senior year and figure out what I wanted out of life.
“What do you want me to tell her?”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“About what happened?”
There wasn’t time to answer because Lindsey stuck her head inside and narrowed her eyes. “It’s called seven minutes in heaven for a reason,” she sneered. “What are you even doing in here?”
She glanced between us and then zeroed in on me. “Are you okay? You look funny.”
“I’m fine,” I said. “We should probably—” I motioned to the door and slipped around them both, inhaling a deep breath the second I got outside.
I didn’t wait for them. I was too embarrassed, too confused about what had just happened. Kaiden had kissed me. But it felt like more… it felt like we’d shared a moment.
Don’t do that, Lily. Don’t make it into something it isn’t. He was distracting you. That’s all.
“Hey, are you okay?” Ashleigh asked as I sat down and burrowed into her side.
“Yep, why wouldn’t I be?”
She studied me for the longest second, but then Kaiden and Lindsey reached us.
“So, dude,” his friend said, “how was she?”
I stiffened.
“Like I’m going to tell you.” Kaiden dropped down in his chair and stretched out his long legs. His eyes flickered to mine, but I quickly averted my gaze.
“You were down there longer than seven minutes,” his friend added. “Did she get on her knees and—”
“Bryan, I said leave it.”
“Jeez,” he whistled between his teeth. “You don’t have to be such an asshole about it. It’s only a question.”
“Yeah, I know,” Kaiden added, and my breath got stuck in my throat. Was he going to tell them? Was he going to out me to everyone?
But then he said five little words that meant far more to me than they ever should.
“But I never kiss and tell.”
* * *
“Ready to talkabout what happened with you and Kaiden in the boat shed?” Poppy asked me as we lay side-by-side on my bed. It was our thing. Saturday mornings she always climbed into my bed and we just lay there, sometimes talking, sometimes not talking.
“Not really.”
“Is that a ‘not really, shut up, Poppy,’ or a ‘not really, but keep fishing, Poppy?’” She nudged my shoulder, chuckling.
